little mini, eensy-weeny soapbox...

The federal government processed $13 billion in stimulus payments. About $425,000 was incorrectly sent to inmates.

Some of it, supposedly, was ok for them to get. They were technically eligible. But the other 1700 checks sent out...well, weren't.

Now I'm not saying that folks sitting in prison aren't citizens, aren't equally and legally eligible for anything the rest of us, um, law abiding citizens, are eligible for, but still...

YOU are in PRISON. You just aren't supposed to get the perks of life the rest of us are supposedly entitled to. I mean, you are there for a reason, and most often it's a valid one, you know? You aren't supposed to get bonus bread crumbs from the government. That just ain't right.

But like I said, I'm not going to soapbox the whole thing. I'm just sayin' it ain't right.

No indulgences of self will can be trivial, no denial unprofitable; Heaven or Hell depends on this alone. A parent who studies to subdue it in his child works together with God in the renewing and saving of their soul. The parent who indulges it does the devil's work, makes religion impractical, salvation unattainable, and does all that in him lies to damn his child, soul and body, forever.